A client has sent me a couple of .doc files containing macros for drop-down menus. Is there a way to manage these with Wordfast - or even translate them without any CAT tools? When I click on them I don't seem to be able to edit them at all.

In fact the files look as though someone has copied the material off the internet and pasted into Word (there are also unnecessary tables, frames). Perhaps some gentle client education is in order...?

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First disallowing macros, open the document. Now I can click into the menus, a VBasic window opens and in there I can edit the text in the menu options.

Save and close document.

Now re-open document this time allowing macros, and proceed to do the rest with normal CAT tools.

Thank you for your help. Converting to rtf preserved the drop-down menus (which really surprised me!) and even opening the .doc with Open Office obliterated them altogether (before conversion), so there would have been nothing for Omega to work on. But I shall remember these tips for the future!

Richard

[Edited at 2009-02-19 13:56 GMT]

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Alt+F11 to activate the VBA editor, in the top left corner you will see "projects" which stand for the files open in Word and connected templates.

In the project for the document you opened you have to find the module which contains macros and forms for the menus.
You will be able to export them to a bas and/or frm (form) file, which hopefully can be processed by a CAT tool. Form file holds the data for the layout of the menu, and it may also contain translatable text of the menu labels. Bas (macros) may contain translatable messages.

Bas and frm files can be reimported into templates and DOC files using the VBA Editor.

Hope this helps.

Piotr

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